> Currently, most java packages use the implicit jdk from the build
> system (ant- or maven-build-system), which is… icedtea@8. We still
> have quite a lot of old packages that don't build with openjdk9, so
> I'm not sure when we can update the default jdk…
does that prevent the introduction of a newer default JDK and annotating the
old java dependency on the (hopefully few) packages that fail to build with a
newer default?
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